“Halloween shadows played upon the walls of the houses. In the sky the Halloween moon raced in and out of the clouds. The Halloween wind was blowing, not a blasting of wind but a right-sized swelling, falling, and gushing of wind. It was a lovely and exciting night, exactly the kind of night Halloween should be.”
~ Eleanor Estes, American children’s author (b. May 9, 1906 – d. July 15, 1988)
“To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it.
It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall.”
~ Ann Patchett (b. December 2, 1963)
“Do a loony-goony dance, ‘cross the kitchen floor, put something silly in the world that ain’t been there before.”
—Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic (b. Sept. 25, 1930 – d. May 10, 1999)
(Born December 25, 1965 – Died September 3, 2016 Aged 50)
“When we read with a child, we are doing so much more than teaching him to read or instilling in her a love of language,” she wrote. “We are doing something that I believe is just as powerful, and it is something that we are losing as a culture: by reading with a child, we are teaching that child to be human. When we open a book, and share our voice and imagination with a child, that child learns to see the world through someone else’s eyes.”
Crank the volume on your computer! The sound on this video is very low, but Jonny Geller, literary agent and joint CEO of Curtis Brown, brings up some interesting points.
“Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn’t.”
—Neil Gaiman
I am halfway through Neil Gaiman’s Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances and I am spellbound. I haven’t read anything of Gaiman’s in a while and I’m so glad I rediscovered him. With apologies to the dozens of books in my must-read pile (some of which have been there for years), I may have to indulge in more of his work.
“When you’re a writer, you’re doing a job people don’t know you’re doing and you can’t really talk about, and you’re always finding your way in this secret world.”
–Alice Munro
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